Jo Rhett wrote:
Auto detection is completely and utterly broken.
...
Seriously, show me a single site with auto detection enabled that
I just wanted to apologize for my pissy attitude. It wasn't you guys,
and you didn't deserve these responses.
(the rest of this e-mail is off topic, so unless you're bored hit D)
Some idiot out there keeps sending a hundred megabyte flood against a
customer of a customer. Our network handles it fine (my day job, not
netconsonance) but it so happens that this customer of a customer is on
the same DSL switch as I am, and it makes life hell for me too. So I
have to bring up my out of band access and try to nail this fuck-head.
He's not randomizing source IPs, but he keeps moving from place to
place. And it's always early evening or early morning PST, so I think
the fucker is going to random well-connected internet cafes and doing
these attacks from there.
Unfortunately, a hundred megabytes just doesn't make a blip on most
provider's radar (even ours), so it's pretty hard to trace backwards
before he's gone.
The fact that it's consistently just before/after working hours PST
makes me hope that someday I'll figure out who he is and can go break
the fucker's kneecaps.
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Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
